As you move through your career and develop as leaders in the tech space, you will soon realise that things are going to be so different in leading in disruptive and transformative times - this is no more the case than right now through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over the last two years, flint.nz has held several events where we have brought together a number of inspirational leaders who will share their thoughts and answer your questions on the topic. Typically you got to share time with a leader for 25 mins with a tale of 8. Well, we can’t do that right now, so we’re launching the next best thing - CXO Bytes - a weekly video podcast where we ask a leader the questions and you get to see the answers. This week we are talking with Lillian Grace, Founder and CEO of Figure Group.

Lillian Grace is the Founder of Figure.NZ, an organisation democratising data in New Zealand, and in 2018 she won the inaugural Most Inspiring Individual award at the NZ Hi-tech Awards. After leading the organisation as CEO for since 2012, she has recently appointed another CEO in her place and stepped out to establish a new venture – Figure Group. Figure Group exists to figure out how to get dignity and delight for all, and then to work with many others to achieve it. Prior to Figure Group, Lillian founded Figure.NZ 8 years ago and chose a remote-first approach from the beginning.

Lillian has previously been on the Data Futures Partnership Working Group, the Open Government Partnership Expert Advisory Panel, and on the boards of the Innovation Partnership and of Centre of Research Excellence Te Pūnaha Matatini. Lillian was also at Academy Award-winning Massive Software, and think tank The NZ Institute.

This is a free event, open to FLINT and TUANZ members. Register we’ll send you a link to tune in via Zoom closer to the time.